Hugo Pipes as standalone Go module?

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I’ve been using Hugo Pipes to concatenate, minify, and fingerprint CSS and it works great! Thank you for this feature!

I’m currently working on an open source Go project (it’s not a Hugo project) and was searching for an asset pipeline that worked in a similar fashion. I came across Hugulp which looks really cool, but seems to require nodejs. I’d love if everything could be done in Go using Pipes, but maybe I don’t understand how this is currently working in Hugo.

Would it be technically feasible to release Hugo Pipes as a Go Module that could be used on other projects that use Go templates, or is that not even possible?

I was poking around and it looks like a lot of the magic might be happening in “resources”:

  • Fingerprinting: resources/resource_transformers/integrity/integrity.go
  • Minifying: resources/resource_transformers/minifier/minify.go and also
    minifiers/minifiers.go with the help of tdewolff/minify
  • Concat: resources/resource_factories/bundler/bundler.go
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Everything is possible, but in general I would say that creating a general library is much more work compared to creating something Hugo specific.

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Makes sense, thanks @bep!

For anyone interested, the release notes are helpful for understanding the Hugo Pipes implementation.

Also found the go-assetprecomiler project which might suit my needs for go based asset pipeline.

Edit: Forked a version of the project above to add fixes and new features: https://github.com/plentiform/go-asset-pipeline